>1. 54. No' 10
Hillsboro, N. C.. Thursday, March 6, 1947
(Published Weekly)
march Of Dimes
t\oal Exceeded;
4,991 Collected
total of $4,991.81 was coi
ned in Orange county in the
47 March of Dimes, annual
id raising driVe of the Nation
J Foundation for Infantile Par
esis, which was held January
-30 with E. Carrington Smith
I Chapel Hill at chairman of the
live in the county, and Bon
D. Sawyer, Hillsboro attorn
assisting by directing the
live from Hillsboro.
.he sinn collected exceeded
• goal of $3,500 by $1,491.81.
“We hope there will be no
|lio in Orange county, but if
ere should be, we’re happy to
that we have some money to
Jlp fight it,” Simth said. “We
ant to say thanks to everyone
10 contributed to the drive.”
[“Much credit goes to R. H.
Jaytor, superintendent of
iooIs, to Glenn Proffitt, his as
btant, and to the principals
bd teachers who directed the
live In the schools,” Sawyer
lid.
[Last year in Orange county
jere were several cases of Pol
1, with death taking one of those
ruck.
legro Held
or Beating
Confesses
•w
John Henry Breeze, 30-year-old
%ro, who was arrested Februar, *
in connection with the brutai
ating of Mrs. Agnes Wilkerson
Route 2, Hillsboro, has con
sed in the presence of Sheriff
Latta and deputies to charges
le against him in the case, it
announced this week.
irsasw Is being held in the C\ -
|ge county jail without bond un
charges of assault and attempt
kill for trial in Orange county
aerior court.
Irs. Wilkerson positively iden
|ied Breeze as her assailant last
eek from her hospital bed in Bur
figton, where she is recovering
am injuries sustained when
bopze allegedly entered her home
the morning of February 19,
merely beat her with a stick,
abed her of $ 18 and left her on a
rning bed.
IMrs. Wilkerson’s condition is fe
l>rted as improving.
West Hill Hews
By Peggy Mangum
The Women’s Missionary So
:ty of the Pilgrim Holiness
lurch met at the home of Mrs.
ella Taylor Saturday night a
eek ago. Miss Doris Burton was
ven a bridal shower later on in
e evening.
The Intermediate girls of the
est Hill Baptist Church held their,
gular monthly meeting Friday
ening at the home of' Miss Faye
arine. Plans were made for a
ay to be given to raise money
r the class.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Htashaw oi
urlington, spent SundayUn Hills
3ro visiting with Mr. and Mrs.
harlie Burton.
Miss Kathryn Patterson of Ef
nd was the guest of Miss France.1
eighbours Thursday and Friday
Mrs. J. W. Pearson and daugh
r Judy, and Miss Louise Chappel
nd Marvin Hayes of Raleigh visi
:d Mr. and Mrs.-Pete Taylor ov
r the weekend.
Mrs. Ernest Bateman and daugh
ers Elizabeth and Patricia of
tockingham spent the weekend
«th friends in Hillsboro. :
The regular monthly meeting of
he young people of the Pilgrim
loliness Church wil be at the home
if Miss Nettie Strum Wednesday
ilarch 5, at 7:30. All members are
irged to attend.
Civil Service
Exam Slated . •
The United State eivil service
comission has announced an op
on competitive examination for
probational appointments to the
Position of substitute clerk at the
Hillsboro post, office.
All .appjicatinns.shhuld
c*Tved at the Civil Service office,
Nlssen building, Winston-Salem,
not later than March £5, accord
ing to the announcement.
County Board
Asks Repair
For 3 Roads
Orange county commissioners
Monday passed resolutions re
questing the State Highway Com
mission to hardsurface three roads
in Orange county.
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The roads were selected from
the many petitions presented the
commissioners in the past sevei al
months and from the many roads
over which the commissioners
have traveled in their investiga
tion of the petitions.
Hardsurfacing was requested for
the following roads: from Rt. 86 at
Kennedys to Walnut Grove church,
a distance of three miles: from
Cheeks crossing on U. S 70 to
Cheeks Cross Roads, a distance of
one and one-quarter miles; and
on Efland-Cedar Grove road from
Efland to Fairfield church, a dis
tance of 3.1 miles.
E. C. Compton of Route 3, me
bane, presented a petition to the
commissioners asking for con
struction of road from Lonnie
Parker’s to J. S. Rogers on Carr
Corbett road, a distance of three
miles. The petition pointed out
that a number of families would
be served by the road, families
which do not have any entrance
other than a farm road to their
property.
i Beer licenses were issued to
* Territt Dixon, Joe Freshwater and
■”l"mmie Womble.
The commissioners also an
nounced that they would sit as a
board of equalization and review
on March 17.
‘GUnicr Set
At Schools
Next Week
A series of immunization clinics
will be held in a number of Gr
ange county white and Negro
schools during the next week, it
has been announced from the
health department office im Hills
boro. *
Clinics for typhoid,■■ diphtheria,
whooping cough and smallpox vac
cinations will be held at the fol
lowing Negro schools on March 10:
Cedar Grove 9:15, White Oak 10:15,
Harmony 11:15, Fairfield 1:15 and
High Rock 2:15.
X-ray clinic will be conducted
from the health department of
fice in Hillsboro on March 10 for
white and Negroes. 3 4 V J
On March 11, the second trip1
will be made to the West Hillsboro
school for immunization clinic.
Health workers will be at the
school from 1 to 2 p.m.
On March 12 the second trip
will be made to the Carr school at
9:30 and to Sartin at 11 a.m.
At the Efland school on March
18 an x-ray clinic for both white
and Negroes will be conducted
frcm 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and an
immunization clinic for white on
ly during tjae same hours. At a
later date immunization clinic will
be held frcm the Negro school in
*he Efland community. *
Do you think cooperatives
should be taxed?
Rev. W. W. Abernethy, Hills
boro: “Yes, why shouldn't, they
be? Everything and everybody
else is.”
Mrs. Virginia Whicker, Hills
boro: “Yes, they should, since
other businesses are.”
S. H. Strayhorn, University:
"No, since the cooperatives
were formed to aid the farmer.
He doesn’t net many breaks."
Mrs. S. H. Strayhorn, Univer
sity: “Yes, since they compete
with other firms which are re
quired to pay taxes.”
Howard Sparrow, Carrboro:
“1 think there are enough tax
es already, and see no point In
bothering anything else about
more taxes.”
Orange Area
Baseball Loop
Is Suggested_
Organization of an Orange
county baseball league has been
suggested by Deputy Sheriff Carl
Hurley who last year managed the
Eno Cotton Mill team.
Hurley has requested that ^ny
one interested in entering a team
in the league write him at P. O.
Box 73 in Hillsboro. -
A meeting of interested players
and managers from the different
communities in the county will be
arranged, a schedule adopted and
rules and regulations of the league
accepted.
Junior Class
At Aycock
Plans Party
A th:£*-J»ct farce "Miss Jimmy”
will be jrresentecP by the Junior
Class of Aycock High School Fri
day evening, March 7, at 7:30 p.m.
The play is being directed by
the English teacher, Mrs. Lucille
Noel Dula.
The cast is headed by Sara
Frazier and Ralph Cooper Comp
ton. The leading role of Louise
has been assigned to Sara Frazier
and Ralph Compton has the part
of Jimmy whose adventures serve
as the base of the plot of “Miss
Jimmy.” : v ..- — -.
Doris Taylor plays the role, of
Florence the wise cracking room
mate, Beulah Oldham, as Cather
ine who definitely prefers men,
Doris Jordan as Doris who is still
impressed by the upper classmen,
and Margaret Burton as Harriet,,
a rank snob. Due to her past suc
cess as character actress, Mari
anne Pittard plays the role of Miss
Watkins, dean of the college.
Droopy, the colored janitor, Who
is about as fast under the hat as
he is on the ground, is played by
Glen Caruthers.
Tom Pope has been cast' for
the part of Professor Frazier, who
has an English accent and a taste
for tea.
engagement announced
The engagement of Miss Mary
Belle Snipes, daughter of William
Manley Snipes of near Hillsboro,
-to Cecil Merritt Kirk, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Wesley Kirk .of
pillsboro, has been announced.
The wedding will take place March
15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cane Creek
Baptist church. •
200- Year-Old Ancient Clock
Owned By Sidney Stray horn
By Mae V. Lark
When Sidney Strayhom had to
take his alarm clock to a repair
shop recently, he was provoked
—not so mufch at its inefficiency,
as at the fact that the “grandfath
er’s clock" in the living room,
which had been faithful for at
least two hundred years, didn t
have an alarm.
The ancient clock, which was
brought over from England by
Strayhom’s great-great-grandfa
ther when he settled in North
Carolina approximately 200 years
ago, stands about seven feet tall
in its walnut cabinet in the living
room of “Sid’s” home near the
Duke Power plant at University.
It is a Seth Thomas-Plymouth
clock, and its mechanism is all of
wood, except for one tiny metal
wheet and; the striking
adaption to tfie nMiite an&'s&.'Witf
hands, there Is another hand which
tells the day of the month.
The clock has always been a
precious possession of the Stray
horn family. The present owner
inherited it from his Uncle Sid
ney Strayhorn because he was his
namesake and youngest nephew.
The walnut case was purchased
by the elder Sidney from a travel
ling salesman about sixty years
ago. It was his request that the
clock remain in the Strayhorn
family. The present owner has
two daughters and seven nephews
of the Strayhorn name.
Until Sidney received the clock
17 months, ago, it was in his fa
ther’s heme., ""
When-Sidney brought the clock
from his father’s home 17 months
ago, he refinished the walnut case
and replaced the brass weights, ad
ding a new touch of beauty. These
were the only necessary repairs.
In the clock, he has not only a
•eaitfa&EV -acesrtfi^ tintcpiiccv
a fine piece of furniture, q calen
dar, and an article of much his
toric interest.
Go-Ahead Signal For Interior Renovation
Of Orange County Court House Authorized
Tobacco Associates Endorsed;
Bureau Sets Member Goal
Legion Told
Back Taxes
Must Be Paid
Refusing to waive back ta?T
es on the Hines Harris proper
ty, recently purchased by
Hillsboro Post No. 85 of the
American Legion, the county
board of commissioners Mon
day followed in the steps of
the Hillsboro town commissioners
who recently passed a resolution
against cancelling the taxes against
the property.
With Owen Robertson as spokes
man ToFtKe^rOTp, a delegation of
Legionnaires-appeared before the
board Monday with a request that
the county commissioners request
the county’s representatives in the
General Assembly to introduce an
enabling act giving the commis
sioners the legal right to cancell
he existing taxes against the prop
erty.
(Present laws do not allow the
commissioners to “forgive” back
taxes on property. Under present
laws, as pointed out in the meet
ing Monday, the Legion will not
have to pay any future taxes on
the property.)
Expressing the opinion thdt they
thought it a form of class legis
lation, the members of the com
missioners voted against request
ing the legislators to introduce
such a measure.
- Legion members expressed the
opinion that they thought the com
missioners should request such an
act since the American Legion was
attempting to construct and main
tain a building flic the use of the
veterans in the county.
It Was said at the meeting that
the amount of taxes owed against
the property was $1,000 in town
levies and approximately $600 in
county levies.
New Hope
8y Miss Elizabeth Kirkland
Members of a committee ap
Dointed by Orange Presbytery to
plan for a camp at New Hope met
at the church Saturday, March 1.
The men of the church will meet
I at the church Wednesday, March
5 to begin work cutting logs for
buildings.
" A committee appointed by the
Woman’s Auxiliary met at the
church Tuesday night with Rev.
W. M. Bakqr a member of Pres
bytery’s committee - to complete
plans for serving a lunch to re
presentatives from all over Orange
Presbytery who will meet there
April 7.
Mr. and George Tinnen and
daughter, Marie, of Fayetteville
visited Mrs. M. C. Blackwood ov
er the weekend.
i Mr. Horne, a UNC student, and
his bride of 2 months have rent
| ed Sn apartment from Mrs. M. C.
j Blackwood and are doing light
house keeping.
1 Rev. and Mrs. Georps Pickard
i and sons George andJPornmy were j
dinner guests at GretJrgc Freeland’s
Sunday. —-'
Mrs. Louis Freeland was elect^
ed Secretary-treasurer of the
Blackwood-New Hope club at
the February meeting held in hte
church house Tuesday, February
25, at 2 p.m.
Plans were made for a Home
Beautification contest in the club
and some members will participate
in the county wide contest.
The home agent demonstrated
different ways of serving meat and
distributed .vitamin and nutrition1
charts, guides to good eating, re- I
eipes for all kinds of pies, cakes
and cookies, a variety of ways of j
cooking meats and showed pictures
of different cuts of meat and
how 1c buy and cook economically.
Mrs. Winder Bishop is in Watts
Hospital recovering from an oper
ation.
Mrs. and Mrs. Homer Tapp are
announcing the birth of a daugh
ter, Margaret Ann, born in Watts
Hospital, February 26.
CHRI8TMA8 SEAL. 8ALE
TOTALS $330.02
The* Rev. Charles S. Hubbard.
Hillsboro during December,- an
nounced this week that total sales
amounted to $339.02.
A goal of 1,000 Farm Bureau
members in Orange county was
set by members at a meeting held
Friday night in the Aycock school
auditorium.1 Approximately 75
farmers attended the gathering.
Ef Y. Floyd, educational direct
or of the Plant Food Institute in
Raleigh, was the principal speak
er for the meeting.
The Farm Bureau fully endors
ed -the Tobacco- Associates, Inc.,
and pledged' approximately $500
for the group to carry on its work
The Tobacco Associates, Inc., is
a joint undertaking of the Ameri
can Farm Bureau and the Pomona
Grange to encourage the export of
tobacco. With a recent announce
ment from England that purchases
of flue-cured tobacco will decrease
in the next few years, tobacco
men have become worried that the
price will drop if the present pro
duction iTconUnued:
Members of the Grange units, in
Orange county are expected to
add to the fund already pledged
by the Farm Bureau.
Announcements are being made
concerning the union-revival meet
ing of the Gedar GroVe churches,
which will be held in the Metho
dist church beginning the third
Sunday in March. Dr. Patterson,
a Presbyterian minister, will con
duct the services.
The Woman’s Society of Christ
ian Service met at the Parsonage
Wednesday evening.
The Youth Fellowship held their
regulhi- meeting at the home of
Mis$ Marianne Pittard.
Mrs. Bryant Tripp, the former
Miss Katy Watkins, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Watkins, has
been seriously ill in a hospital in
Greenville.
Mrs. W. E. Pope is a patient in
Watts Hospital. Mrs. Pope under
went an operation last week.
Pfc. Warren Copple left Mon
day from ORD, Greensboro for
New York. Warren has been sta
tioned in Greensboro for the past
ten months.
Dr. Emmanuel, a native of In
dia will speak in the Eno Pres
byterian church next Sunday eve
ning at 7:§0. Everyone is cordially
invited to attend this service.
Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Allen and
little daughter, Judy, of Graham,
visited Mrs. Allen’s parents, Mr.
ani Mrs. C. A. Copple Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Isley and Mr.!
and Mrs. 0. E. Wilson and family
visited Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson
Sunday. , . . - j
Mr. S. °F. Pore returned from
Duke Hospital last week after re-,
ceiving treatment there.
Robert Oliver of Durham spent j
the day with his parents Sunday. [
_Mr. J W._Tolar was on the
sick list thisfNyeek.
Mr. and Mrs. Don McDade Spent
the weekend with Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Underhill in Durham.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Morris of
Highland Avenue, Durham, an
nounce the birth of a daughter,!
Barbara Carol, February 24 " in j
Duke Hospital. Mrs. Morris is the
farmer Miss Valeria Pylas of Hills
The go-ahead signal for the renovation of the Orange coun
ty court house in Hillsboro was given by the members of the
county commissioners Monday when they heard the final ten
tative report of H. R. Weeks, architect.
The go sign from the commissioners means that the coun
ty will spend in the neighborhood of $85,000 for the interior
repair and modernization of the century-old building, pro
$31*814 Refunded
Belle Vue Mfg. Co.
The Belle Vue Manufacturing
Company of Hillsboro has been
refunded a total gf $31,814 for
overpayment of excess profits
and income taxes.
The refund was made public
In a report issued by the In
ternal Revenue Bureau in Wash
ington.
The refund was made for thec
year ending June 30, 1946.
Herman Ward
Employees of the Chapel Hill
post ofice enjoyed a steak dinner
at the P & V Cafeteria Wednes
day night, February 26. The din
ner was^iven in honor of Herman
Ward, who has resigned from the
postal service and is now with
the Caston Motor Company.__
After the dinner was served
the group was led in a short per
iod of entertainment by G. M.
Kirkland who acted as toastmast
er.
During the evening a leather
brief case was presented to Mr.
Ward. W. C. Best presented the
gift in a humorous speech.
Short talks were made by Pos
tal Inspector Risley and postmast
er W. S. Hogan and Assistant
postmaster H. D. Strowd. < *
Those present for the occasion
were postal inspector Risley, Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Ward, Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. Hogan, Mr. and Mrs.
H. D. Strowd, Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard Webb, Mr. and Mrs, Fred
Edney, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Turn
age, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Penderr
graft, Mr. and Mrs. Everette Rush,
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Neville, Mr.
and Mrs. Rupert Bynum. Mr. and
Mrs. D. W. King, Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Elinger, Mr. and Mis. L. C
Cheek, Mrv -and Mrs. J.- lx. Perry.
Mr. -and Mrs. Kenneth Lloyd. Mr.
Hoyt Perry, Miss Elizabeth Wam
ble, G. M. Kirkland, Mr. and Mrs.
P. D. Pendergraft, Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Strowd, Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Marks, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Neville,
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Best, Mr. and
Mrs. Lacy Burch, Mr. and Mrs
E. B. Horton, Mr. and Mrs. Ken
neth Cheek, Mr. and Mrs. B. L.
Ward and Mr. and Mrs. A. V.
Powell. —
Meets Thursday
The Hillsboro Garden Club will
meet Thursday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock with Mrs. B. P. Gordon,
Sr., at her home on King street.
Mrs. T. N. Webb will have;
chaTge of the program which will j
feature a talk by William Rice of,
Durham. Mr. Rice is owner of a
nursery and has worked in the
landscape program at Duke Uni
versity.
By Friends
Carden
Equipment Shortage Delays
Freezer LotHer Construction
Assurance that the^Sarmors Mu
tual Exchange has sot dropped
plans for the construction of
freezer locker plants in Chapel
Hill -end-Hillsboro was given the
members of the Hillsboro Lions
club at their meeting here last
Thursday by Mark Davis, repre
sentative of the Exchange.
At the invitation of the club,
Davis appealed before it and ex
plained that the shortage and dif
ficulty of obtaining refrigeration
equipment was retarding the plans
of the Exchange in constructing
and equipping the locker plants
in Orange county.
Simultaneous campaigns were
carried on in Hillsboro and Chapel
Hill last summer In signing up
nrospective locker renters for the
two plants when they are com
pleted. „ '* . --
atxe. sEcyREd
Davis confirmed reports on the
Exchange’s use of the propertyon
which' the old Nash-Kollock house
I was located when he-revealed that
a huge warehouse and freezer
locker plant would be constructed
on trf£ property. “It will be a
building that- will enhance the
property and not cause a decrease
in the valuation of the surround
ing property,” he added.
Pointing out the necessity of in- ]
creasing the livestock production
in the county in order to insure
the success of the freezer locker
plant, Davis asserted that Orange
county farmers needed to realize
the necessity of another cash crop
to replace the tobacco in the coun
ty. .... _..-.
“Recent legislation and an
nouncement of the decrease in
the amount of tobacco England ex
pects to purchase from the Unit
ed States may result in the low
ering of income from"the tobacco
! crop. The expansion of the live
stock business in the oounty would
See (EQUIPMENT) on page 4
vidmg adequate office space for the
sheriff and his deputies, the clerk
of court, and the register of deeds
plus a modem court room for hold
ing sessions of superior court and
the county recorder’s court;
In a detailed report to the com
missioners Architect Weeks ex
plained the breakdown of expen
ditures and, gave a tentative esti
mated cost of $85,000 for the in
terior renovation of one of Hills
boro’s mos't historic buildings.
The 'repairs will include ade
quate office space for the clerk of
court and the register of deeds,
larger vaults for the storage of the .
county’s records, toilet facilities
for white men and women and Ne
gro men and women, jury rooms,
judges’ chambers, conference
rooms, a balcony in the court room,. __
additional seating space in the
court room, more space for the
sheriff and the deputies, a modern
heating system and a sprinkler
system.
Officers of the county account
ant and tax colector are not being
provided for in the court house,
but will be. included in an office
building the county officials plan
to construct to house those two
offices and the offices of other _
county officials who now use
rented space such as the welfare
department, the school superin
j tendent and the health depart
ment.
Weeks estimated that the com
plete job to the court house would
consume about one year. The work
will be so arranged to make it
possible for one side to be com
pleted before the other side is
started, thus making it possible
for the functions of the offices re
maining in the structure to contin
ue in spite of the work.
When the work reaches the point
that the county accountant and
the tax collector are forced to
move from the buildine, space
elsewhere in the town will be se
cured for the offices until the of
fice building is constructed.
Legion Plans
free Drawing
For New Car
.With a new 1947 Chevrolet se
'Jan as grand prize, the Hillsboro
-Dost of the American Legion this
week launched a mammoth carh
-laim to raise money for the
purchase of the Hihes Harris prop^
‘erty in Hilsboro. The property
will be converted Into a Legion
hut and headquarters for the Post
ne're.
Onc-dollar tickets entitling the
bearer to participate in a free
drawing for the automobile are
now on sale by the Legionnaires.
According to the plans announc
ed by the Legion post, the bearer
of the ticket does not have to be
present for the drawing which
wil take place in Hillsboro cn May
.1, to win the automobile. If the
ow.ne' of the ticket is not present,
he will be notified and the auto
mobile held until he claims it.
Printing of the tickets for the
Post was financed by Robertson
Oil Company and Eno Chevrolet
Company, both of Hillsboro.
County- Wide
Livestock
Schools Set
Plans are being made to hold a
series of training schools in fit
ting and showing livestock as a
follow-up to the training demon
stration held last Wednesday af
ternoon at the livestock market
near Hillsboro.
Ed Barnes, assistant county ag
ont, said approximately 150 peo
ple from Orange, Alamance, per
son, Chatham and Ourham coun
ties attended the school conducted
hv r t. 0>s» p*dma1 husbandry,
specialist at State College.
Represented in the group were
p——te-^bers, 4-H
>mbers ancTFPA members.
ffv- <J-?n'>n,dration*
Orange county will* be announc
at a later date, Barnes said.
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